15 miles, originally uploaded by cindigodotcom.

Our first serious days of training. We loaded our twenty pound packs (Andy says more like 35), hiked 15 miles to Thunderbird State Park, camped the night and hiked the 15 miles back. We’re a little sore right now. The tortured feet pic is much more exaggerated than it looks. [...]

We are still alive and still in Oklahoma. “Project X” ended up well for the week with Andy not getting kicked out of any casinos, refining his strategies and ending up in the black for the week.
I went to Talihina for the weekend with a bunch of couchsurfers to “see the fall colors” and despite [...]

We made it to Oklahoma. It’s nice here. Norman OK is a college town and not what you would think of Oklahoma at all (think Austin compared to the whole of Texas). We’re staying at a weekly hotel that embarrassingly, we are in love with. It’s brand new, $200 a week and perfect. I went [...]

I’m lying in a white puffy bed, courtesy (well, not really a courtesy, we paid for it) of the Flagstaff Arizona La Quinta Inn. We abandoned our usual hobo tendencies of sleeping in a vehicle, tent or on stranger’s floor or futon and decided to spring for the lap of La Quinta luxury. Monday night [...]

Space Rangers, originally uploaded by cindigodotcom.

I’m typing to you from Helen’s blue, never to become retro, couch in LA. She left in a flurry of lateness this morning and gave instructions that included a zip lock bag of keys being thrown over a wall. I’m driving to San Diego in a few minutes where I [...]